I've always been a teaser, even as a kid.
I think someone who writes a ghost story probably needs to believe it in some way.
You can hurt people's feelings if you laugh.
It is radical for a woman to choose to survive and to choose to eat anything.
No one really wants to be laughed at.
I know books that are really good and writers that are really good and they have become oppressed and ground down from the rejection and they stop. Either they stop writing or they have these books in their drawers. I know that for a fact.